2 Clashes of Principle and the Possibility of Dialogue: A Case Study of Same-Sex Marriage in the United Church of Canada

Chapters in this book

1. Front Matter i
2. Contents vii
3. Acknowledgments ix
4. Introduction: Law and Religious Pluralism in Canada 1
5. View from the Succah: Religion and Neighbourly Relations 21
6. Clashes of Principle and the Possibility of Dialogue: A Case Study of Same-Sex Marriage in the United Church of Canada 41
7. Associational Rights, Religion, and the Charter 65
8. The Canadian Conception of Equal Religious Citizenship 87
9. Living by Different Law: Legal Pluralism, Freedom of Religion, and Illiberal Religious Groups 110
10. In the (Canadian) Shadow of Islamic Law: Translating Mahr as a Bargaining Endowment 140
11. Living Law on a Living Earth: Aboriginal Religion, Law, and the Constitution 161
12. Defining Religion: The Promise and the Peril of Legal Interpretation 192
13. Government Support for Religious Practice 217
14. Ontario’s Sharia Law Debate: Law and Politics under the Charter 239
15. Law’s Religion: Rendering Culture 264
16. Contributors 297
17. Index 300
18. Law and Society 310